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New Apple Portables To Drop FireWire Support?
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Seems my PB may turn into a 'Limited Edition' portable with firewire 400 & 800... Get'em now, while you still can...
Just weird for me. I use my iPod to transfer stuff from the macs at school to my TiBook via firewire. Oh well. I guess if I got a shiny new video iPod, I'd might as well get a Macintel too.
We will miss you ol' FW.
We will miss you ol' FW.
Thats one of the great apple inventions. and its become an industry standard too!
>not getting one of these ibooks<
Hope it doesnt become sign of things to come with future macs.
Bull. Apple created FireWire, and it has been a part of their computers since at least '98. It's too useful to be buried.
Isn't PowerPage's reliability like... nonexsistant. Not being on the iPod is one thing, but on a computer? How will you edit video? Unlike the iPod, it would be easy to add to an Intel mb. Some even come with it already onboard. I call BS.
Come on guys. Do you really believe this crap? No way will I believe this until I see it. Apple put too much time and effort into 1394 to just get rid of it. Plus, PCs are just starting to include it and Apple is going to drop it. No way.
iSights?
I don't believe it. There are too many firewire-only DV cams out there, and the iSight is firewire only. I paid an arm and a leg for that damn iSight, they better make it work with my next Mac!
I don't believe it. There are too many firewire-only DV cams out there, and the iSight is firewire only. I paid an arm and a leg for that damn iSight, they better make it work with my next Mac!
If they do this, then they'll probably include a F800 > F400 converter with the PBs. I hope that they don't do this though, and I don't see why they'd really need to unless they're that limited on space.
-Chase
-Chase
I read this blog post a while ago... I really don't see it happening. IMO, it would kill the use of iLife on an iBook. A lot of consumer-level cameras can import over FW.
Home movies > sony handycam > iLink (that's their brand of FW, right?) > iMovie
Well.. I really hope it doesn't happen. If it does, you'll be prying my FW powerbook out of my cold, dead hands.
(OK, you'd do that now, but... YOU GET THE POINT!)
Home movies > sony handycam > iLink (that's their brand of FW, right?) > iMovie
Well.. I really hope it doesn't happen. If it does, you'll be prying my FW powerbook out of my cold, dead hands.
(OK, you'd do that now, but... YOU GET THE POINT!)
Stewie said:
I'm guessing that they'll include an iSight into the PBs, but I don't know the dimensions of the chip inside the iMac to know if it's feasible or not. But, that still leaves the iBook hanging, unless they ship it in their laptops and displays.
-Chase
